Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15
ALL SORTS

Platinum has been discovered ns
Clinton, Me.
Thirty millions of cucuubeu
pickles are raised in Fredericksburg
During the recent eclipse of the i
the Russian nihilists scattered NJ
pamphlets all over Russia,
A North Carolina tobacco firm in u
shipped 100000 cigarettes. Sin
January it has shipped l35,O9S,5@ ag
cites.
Yung Wing, Chinaman residing
Hartford, has been elected presided
the Unitarian club.
Christine Nilsson began under Sn
Merrill for a salary of $500 monti
few years later the signor had to pg
Swedish Nightingale $l,4OO night
DR.. Coggswell, of San Francisco 81
to give 100000 to found a polyte'A
school in that city open to any 0q
girl in California.
Emancipation is doing its perfect
with negro by the name of WE! Su.
of Baker county, Georgia, His SIN
gradually become almost white, u
case is reported every year with a!Ia'1
names and localities, and yet the nsg'
as a rule remain colored folk. "A
One of the stammering stories Oh v
liam r. Iravers does not seem . e'l
been repeated since his death S'
port girl asked him, at a garden P,Ai
one evening, what time it was 'D'yD--
by the t-t-time / ocean ss-s %! "
began, painfully, sit w-w'TiA O'
seven o'clock
Iron says that if a continuous tees 81
wire were strung from New lorS I WI
Francisco, aad rainstorm saoa.a ~
progress along the entire roaN
shrlnkage caused in the wire By 'l' /,
would amount to 120 miles, ana iol ~
err distances the proportion "oalO " /
same.
A seminary for young ladies at As h,
Mass, has just issued a beautiill! ,-,n
trated catalogue in which the a iDl.-
ment is made that "Pains Is loh' !,
cultivate the best habits in speaA'Ds
writing the English language
Another great glass workers ,ot
affecting about 1000 men, IS saia N
imminent. People who 1--we y \,
houses will please take notiee aH' nj,
vide themselves for emergencies' .,o,t
particularly careful not to ihFoN -
During the past ten years the - D- q
locomotives works have mace In,
Thousand locomotives, of when wy! H.
exported about nine hundred VI Ss-
fully seven hundred have gons " MI
America They not Only furnish III NM
to South America, but nave ny g.,llr
English locomotives in Ne" .o5
They have sent many to AuSiraila
! New South Wales. a. ins.s9
General Buckner wants 10 % =. II
as governor of Kentucky WIN
| fuss as possible, but the usi. ~. o.,,.
/ that state intend to make II az wy
/ memorable for display.
The venerable Hannibal ham, II
only living ex-vice presiidesn' cav Z.
limited states. will come all me me T =
Maine to Missouri TO attend 'n'' int Q.
encampment. Mr.. Hamlin mas
pleted his 18th year. d..
Ida Lewis Wilson still keeps .-'
boat in which she has saved tnil, .,'i5
sons. and says that if she W. ~ ars
have an opportunity to rescue rescue. II ,5sa
ing she would use /. Tathst t5s ,
handsome new one presented I!
zens of Newport. .os
There is some current cona l-..iil lss
fact that the state Of IenI ,.,s.,,a The
IN neglected grave IN siaO' INDEED
mains Of Gen. John Sewer a.soosii
legislature has just reiecie9, -.5se.sss
TO have them reinterred y rlersl q
ana A suitable monumeh'
them. T..
Eree-iments tried win : III .sssi.
cal device for use in teeoiI Rove &
paper to printing pressss. ard %
successful. It is aatomA.'' ID ca
Of any trouble i signailsu
ringing q bell.